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Topic: Fighting Games

I actually do think SF 5 is a lot easier to get into than 3 or 4, the V mechanics are more intuitive and easier to execute than parrying or FADC. Very excited to see what arcade edition and season 3 announcements are going to happen at Capcomcup finals this year. And do your easy and possibly normal survivals for fight money while you can, they're taking that mode out for Arcade Edition.

On another note the guest characters are really turning it up with TMNT for Injustice 2 and Noctis for Tekken 7. I wonder if this will actually get more general gamers into fighting games.

^ Back when that game was new, I had this buddy who kept talking about how much better his Xbox was than my 'Cube. SC2 was one area where he got pretty damn jealous. Although, we agreed that Spawn was still a better deal than Heihachi's boring ass (in comparison).

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^ Back when that game was new, I had this buddy who kept talking about how much better his Xbox was than my 'Cube. SC2 was one area where he got pretty damn jealous. Although, we agreed that Spawn was still a better deal than Heihachi's boring ass (in comparison).

lol, shows you how boring it is to put Heihachi into Soul Calibur. I totally forgot his boring ass was an exclusive character.

I just read on Wikipedia (cuz I always Wikipedia shit) that Heihachi was actually supposed to be Cloud Strife, but the deal fell through at the last minute. That would have been much cooler ...depending on how much emo one can handle.

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Somehow, I actually find Spawn far less interesting than Heihachi, but having a guest fighter from your own other fighting game was inexcusable.

Them there are fighting words :P Spawn's cape alone is more interesting then borachi

Well... as a guest fighter in SC, maybe. But as a character from a piece of fiction, Heihachi is at least pretty different and unique for his medium (but, of course, still cheesy as heck). While Spawn is essentially an anthropomorphization of cringey 90s teenage edgelord neckbeard comic book nonsense.

Ok, maybe those are fighting woords.

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Somehow, I actually find Spawn far less interesting than Heihachi, but having a guest fighter from your own other fighting game was inexcusable.

Them there are fighting words :P Spawn's cape alone is more interesting then borachi

Well... as a guest fighter in SC, maybe. But as a character from a piece of fiction, Heihachi is at least pretty different and unique for his medium (but, of course, still cheesy as heck). While Spawn is essentially an anthropomorphization of cringey 90s teenage edgelord neckbeard comic book nonsense.

Ok, maybe those are fighting woords.

The original premise of Spawn was good. The series derailed once McFarlane couldn't figure out what he wanted to do with the character and then it became a train wreck.

I just read on Wikipedia (cuz I always Wikipedia shit) that Heihachi was actually supposed to be Cloud Strife, but the deal fell through at the last minute. That would have been much cooler ...depending on how much emo one can handle.

Goddammit Squeenix, that would've made a huge difference back then (no matter how much of a Nightmare/Siegfried clone he probably would've been). The FF series was a peak popularity back in 2003 and Cloud would've easily dominated the competition (and made the constant Link vs. Cloud debates from that era even worse (and the inevitable L-Block upset all the sillier (and the final 'Settle it in Smash('s DLC)' even more hype))).

Still, Link was easily the most popular South California guest due to being at his peak popularity and being all about weapons and tools (seriously, bringing a bow/bomb/boomerang/hookshot to a knife/sword/whatever fight; his bullshit was much cooler than Yoda's stubbiness or Dork Apprentice' Force powers meter management), Heihachi bringing no real weapon to a weapon-based fighter (and not being interesting enough to make his bringing of his fists to a knife/sword/whatever fight as badass as it sounds on paper), and Spawn being locked to the XBLOCK (and being a Comic Fanservice character in a Videogame Fanservice role).

Edit: I forgot about Necrid being Teh Apprentice of SCII. Namely because he was king of low effort in that game (no weapon model, and was basically Killer Croc with a Glowy Chest Rock). He's also why Spawn wasn't nearly as great as he could've been (because they were both McFarlane character designs, so you got Chinese Knockoff, Low-effort Spawn (Cape sold separately), no matter which version you got).

Guess what came back from the dead over half a decade later (and its been over a full decade since SCIV came out, what the shit)?

Also, they seem to be ditching the timeskip. I suppose its for the best since a lot of the SC Gen 2 characters were pretty weak sauce overall (also, kinda ironic since SCV's deal was them trying to tone down the T&A that had taken over the series by that point, whereas the last five years of gaming have caught up to SCIV's levels of debauchery instead).